The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind / A.C. Grayling.
Grayling, A. C., author.
2016
D242 .G73 2016 (Mapit)
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Title The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind / A.C. Grayling.
Author Grayling, A. C., author.
Edition First U.S. edition.
ISBN 9781620403440 hardcover
1620403447 hardcover
Published New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Language English
Description x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Call Number D242 .G73 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.252
Summary "Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature; the rise of the individual as a general and not merely an aristocratic type; and the invention and application of instruments and measurement in the study of the natural world"--Amazon.com.
Note "First published in Great Britain, 2016"--Title-page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-340) and index.
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Introduction. Seeing the universe ; The epoch in human history
A time of wars. The origins of the wars ; The loss of the Palatinate ; The mercenary captains ; The Edict of Restitution, 1629
The Swedish apogee ; From Wallenstein to Breisach ; Towards Westphalia ; In the ruins of Europe ; The maritime conflicts
The cumulation of ideas. The intelligencers ; The short ways to knowledge ; Dr Dee and the potent art ; The Rosicrucian scare
From magic to science. From magic to method ; The birth of science ; War and science
The social order. Society and politics ; Language and belief
Conclusion. Is it a myth?

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